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Equipment: Barbells, dumbbells, medicine balls, pull up rigs, atlas stones, kettlebells
Students should bring: Comfortable workout clothes; we have a cold water fountain
Registration required: Yes
Good for beginners: Yes
Average class length: 60 minutes
Number of Staff: 1–5 people
Class location: Mix of indoor and outdoor classes
Established: 2013
Guests allowed: Yes
Parking: Parking lot
Pro Tip: Concentrate on technique, work hard, be consistent, and challenge yourself.
Q&A with Tommy, Coach
Exercise is challenging, and people frequently give up on their fitness routines. How do you keep clients motivated?
We give people free Bat City branded swag and permanent discounts just for having good attendance at no extra cost. For example, six workouts earns one koozie; 15 workouts earns one water bottle; and 21 workouts earns a free t-shirt. If you hit large milestones like 100 workouts, we give you a permanent discount of 10% off and your picture on the wall of fame. We put every single athlete's personal record on the board so they can see themselves constantly getting stronger and faster. It also helps coaches to know exactly what each athlete's stats are. Workouts are constantly varied—but not random—and focused on getting stronger and faster in a safe environment. We also give people free membership to Beyond the Whiteboard so they can track their workouts.
Do you run your gym according to a particular exercise philosophy?
CrossFit is constantly varied, functional movements performed at high intensity. Safety is our number one rule. You start by learning technique, then you gain consistency, and then you can apply intensity. It's not always easy to go to a large, faceless gym by yourself with no coach to build a program that's right for you. While one or two coaches runs each class, participants support and root for each other. The last person to finish a workout is just as important as the first person to finish a workout. You can compete against each other, or you can just compete against yourself. Everything is scalable, and we have athletes of all ages and fitness levels. Also, everything is measurable, so you'll see yourself getting better every day.

Equipment: Rogue Equipment and Fringe Sport
Students should bring: A bottle of water and mental and physical fortitude
Average class length: 60 minutes
Number of Staff: 1–5 people
Class location: Mix of indoor and outdoor classes
Established: 2013
Registration required: Yes
Good for beginners: Yes
Guests allowed: Yes
Parking: Parking lot
Pro Tip: Be excited and open minded. We believe everyone is an athlete, and welcome all skill levels.
Q&A with Athan, Owner, Head Coach, and Trainer
Exercise is challenging, and people frequently give up on their fitness routines. How do you keep clients motivated?
The best thing about Fortitude are the workouts. They incorporate key principles from CrossFit, keeping them constantly varied, but also challenging the athlete to push themselves mentally and physically. We create a friendly and supportive atmosphere so that even tough workouts make you feel successful and accomplished, leaving you ready to take on anything that comes up in life.
What is the biggest mistake you see people make when trying to get fit on their own?
When people workout on their own, they often have a difficult time really challenging themselves and seeing the results they are hoping for. With the right fitness program, you can exercise, have a life, and see the progress you want for your body. Plus, having a group environment helps to keep up your morale and encourages you to show up, because you feel accountable to the friends you make at the gym.
Sweating to the oldies is acceptable, but sweating to the blues less so. Do you find that certain styles and genres of music generate more intense workouts?
Music is really important when you workout. And everyone in Austin has an opinion about music. That's why we take requests from our athletes and build workout playlists from their suggestions. We're all about giving you the best workout possible and the best environment to do it in.

Equipment: Rogue, Title Boxing, Concept2, Kettle Bells, FringeSport, obstacle course
Students should bring: Water bottle, towel, etc.
Number of Staff: 1–5
Established: 2013
Registration required: Yes
Good for beginners: Yes
Guests allowed: Yes
Parking: Parking lot
Every local community has a story, a history, and a unique personality that cannot be replicated. This is often thanks to specialized, small-scale businesses, like this one, which contribute to a neighborhood’s distinctive character and promote a thriving ecosystem in their community. Small, independent businesses offer diverse products and services, fostering economic resilience by removing the local economy’s dependence on a single industry. When you buy local, you build local, and deepen your connection to your own community.
As a result, patronizing a local business like this is an act of community building. Check out their website to learn more about the local experience you can discover today.
Did You Know?
48 cents of every dollar spent at a locally owned retail business goes back into the local community. That’s more than three times the amount that local economies recover from chain retailers — Civic Economics’ 2012 survey of local businesses
Local businesses have generated 65% of the country’s net new jobs over the past 17 years — US Small Business Administration

Capoeira is part martial art, part dance, and part music lesson—also making it a great workout. During classes, the highly accomplished Mestre Rodrigo Zerlotti gathers his students into a circle where they sing and play musical instruments to help set the speed of the showdown happening in the middle. There, two capoeiristas show off their moves, often demonstrating scything kicks or unexpected takedowns. They also incorporate tumbling and acrobatics into their combative dancing, which they use to dodge their opponent's attacks or deflect invitations to start a conga line.
Mestre Rodrigo started his capoeira practice at age 13 in Brazil. A devoted practitioner throughout his life, he moved to Texas in 1990 and began putting down the roots for Capoeira Evolução before achieving the mestre (master) level in 1996. Today he continues to train contramestres (apprentices) of the art and teaches his beloved capoeira to the local community.

What services does your business offer and what makes your business stand out from the competition?
Motiv8 is one of Austin's ONLY full-service, comprehensive, holistic physical fitness, mental and life coaching organizations. We provide support thru our huge network of experts in their respective fields to ensure you have the tools at your disposal to accomplish anything you set your mind to. Motiv8 offers indoor and outdoor training to insure you are getting the training you are looking for. Our coaches are success stories themselves with experience and certification in personal training, yoga, running, life coaching and more! Want to lose weight and burn fat? We can help. Want to become an ultramarathoner, obstacle course racer, weekend warrior or just crush it at life in general? We can help with those too!
Exercise is challenging. How do you keep clients motivated and engaged?
Preparing for, achieving and retaining long-term results takes commitment. Motiv8tion is just the start, together we transform it into determination! We teach you how to convert the initial motivation you have when you decide to "make the change" into a lifelong set of habits and behavior that make your success simply a side effect of the amazing person you'll soon become. Cross-training is the key to guaranteed success in any training program and it's baked into our company's philosophy, we give you options to challenge yourself with HIIT training, yoga, running and more!
What was the inspiration to start or run this business?
With years of experience and a wealth of knowledge gained thru our own success stories, training regimens and countless races, we felt it was time to give back to the fitness community and pass the torch to others looking to break thru their own plateaus! We do what we do because we truly LOVE it and want to help as many people as possible experience 180 degree change in our lives that we have! We're in the business of helping others to do what they never thought possible and find the confidence, strength and character that exists within them. Unlock YOUR true potential with us!
What do you love most about your job?
Success looks different for each individual person but the result of that success is always the same. They hold their head a little higher, speak a little more confidently and blow away the expectations of others and themselves alike! Seeing this transformation is what gets every single coach at Motiv8 out of bed in the morning, ready to make today just a little better than yesterday for each of our incredible clients. We manufacture superhumans!

Athletic Outcomes: At a Glance
One of the things that sets Athletic Outcomes apart from other gyms is its fully equipped Recovery Lounge. Check it out after your next workout, and enjoy some of these amenities:
Recovery Lounge boots that compress your legs and flush the “junk” out of your blood
Lounge chairs
Cold tub
Foam rollers
Stretching table
TV and magazines
Water and fresh-brewed coffee
A Chat with Athletic Outcomes
What services does your business offer and what makes your business stand out from the competition?
At AO we recognize the importance of positivity and celebrating your strengths. We are all about form, focus, and delivering a successful and rewarding workout plan. If you're ready to develop positive and healthy habits, we are here to support you! Performance. Nutrition. Sports Therapy. Athlete Lounge.
Exercise is challenging. How do you keep clients motivated and engaged?
Constant change to prevent adaptation and goal-oriented sports-specific training. We are a community supported small business with goals to motivate athletes to truly take care of their bodies. A week won't go by without a new program, a new challenge, and a new soundtrack.
What was the inspiration to start or run this business?
We wanted to create a place that supports athletic community. A one-stop shop for individual needs. Performance and recovery with nutrition and sports rehabilitation, like-minded goal-oriented athletes, movement education, and great coffee are just some of the highlights of an AO experience.
What do you love most about your job?
When people fall asleep in our athlete lounge. We get it: they deserve to be in that relaxed, rewarding setting … Oh, and when they ask for a to-go cup for the coffee. Sounds like we've mastered the brewing process.

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Austin Gym, Exercise, And Weightloss Guide

Austin residents, in general, are active people who always seem to be up for a run in Zilker Park, biking through the Hill Country, or even a simple walk downtown. Which might explain why fitness facilities, including Austin gyms, yoga and Pilates studios and weight loss clinics, have become important parts of their lives.

Tabbed as Austin’s best local gym for 2012 by Austin Fit Magazine, Pure Austin Fitness bills itself as “the indoor gym for outdoor people” and offers high intensity training as well as yoga, cardio kickboxing, cycling, and core classes. Fitness 360 is a 24-hour facility that, in addition to the standard weight training, offers “Barre 360”, which combines ballet and Pilates. Another option would be to try one of the Austin yoga studios such as Austin Yoga in the Lamar Shopping Center, which advocates Iyengar yoga for physical and mental harmony. Yoga Yoga has five locations in Austin, making it extremely convenient. Black Swan Yoga, with facilities downtown and on Westgate Boulevard, is an affordable donation-based yoga studio.

Younger than yoga but just as popular is Pilates, the workout of choice for many Austinites. The Pilates Center of Austin on Shoal Creek Boulevard is a “state of the art” studio with low introductory rates and Pilates teacher training as well. Also, the members of the Ballet Austin operate an Austin Pilates studio for individuals and classes.

For some, the problem is not toning up or building muscle but losing weight, and there are several weight loss facilities in Austin that can assist in this goal. The Austin Wellness Clinic on South Lamar offers a drug-free approach to weight loss, while the True Weight Loss Clinic on North Highway 183 employs approved prescription medications as well as nutritional education. Austin gyms, studios, and weightloss clinics can help residents achieve and maintain the shape they need to enjoy the city.